Convert text date, to date 2018-04-18

I have a primary field that contains date information and I need to convert it to a date, so that I can compare it against another date field.

The format of the text date is 2018-04-18, and I need to convert it to a date, and cannot find a formula to do that. Any help?

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=DATE(VALUE(LEFT(text,4)),VALUE(MID(text,6,2)),VALUE(RIGHT(text,2)))

Perfect...thank you sir.

@rjudenberg thank you, did not know the VALUE function existed!

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